Issues of racism and homophobia, as well as gender issues of all kinds, seem to travel together when it comes to movies and their themes. Some of the best films on either subject, notably Gun Hill Road, have tried to tackle the tangled relationship of gender identity and Latino life in the same challenging plots.
Any Day Now, released last year and now available on DVD, explores these complicated topics as well. In it, Alan Cumming (X-Men 2, Spy Kids 2, The Good Wife) and Garret Dillahunt (No Country for Old Men, Raising Hope) play a 1970’s gay couple who battle a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof. And the Down Syndrome boy who plays their adoptive sun is young Latino Isaac Leyva.
Here’s a touching and revealing YouTube interview with Leyva about his work on Any Day Now.
Kamala Lopez (Resurrection Blvd., among many other TV appearances) also appears in the film. It’s available for purchase and, for a mere $3.99, to watch instantly on amazon.com, right here.
